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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Resume Preparation Tips

You get only 10 seconds to impress an interviewer through your resume. This is where your interview begins and believe me - interviewer may decide not to shortlist you before even meeting you.

Few wrong steps you are not supposed to follow during resume preparation are:

Including your Father's name in Personal Details.

Using different font styles.

Using decorations.

Adding bold fonts for the keywords.

Inserting heading as "Resume" instead of your name.

Missing objectives.

Mentioning salary in your resume.

Adding hobbies though you are experienced and so on..

The following should be included in your resume:

Always start with an objective or summary.

Specify the position you are looking for in the "Objective" and things that you promise to deliver as an employee to the company.

Then include your professional summary - for instance - Working as Software Testing Engineer in "XYZ" company, since "YEAR". Always start with your recent company and then mention your previous company.

You can also include stuff like :- 1) Looked after SQA and testing independently, 2) Followed industry standard practices etc,.

Following this always include your strengths like: 1) Played a major role in Testing and Test planning, 2) Well versed in understanding requirement specs and so on.

Once you are done with this, its time to specify what type of technology you have worked with.

Then include projects you have worked with. A brief description of that project, time span, team size and roles and responsibilities. Always start with recent projects in descending order. Add maximum 3 projects and rest you can explain verbally.

Finally include your personal details. If you have a passport then add passport number as well.